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VOL. XVII. NO. 14.
NEWYOEK, SATUKDAY, AUGUST 23, 1856.
WHOLE NO. 846.
National JUU-SUwjj $tan&arfc.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY, ON SATURDAY,
h Fifth St., PhilaMphia.
IMIUTAI. sl,AV.F\Y)tlFFIXukl tlo il, he said, " 1 will take this slave and that
t there a week.
thai, t
rthe e
hundred, moved toward the Court-lio
.s fearful
uildiE
oft:
■■ A great crime has been
r not to imbrue our haials
Something must be done to
A member of the Legisk
against mob law, and reco
pointed to whip the boy, and have all
Oll'rac.e ui.i
anility ■„■.
saered homes."
tended that a day be ap-
thro
3 appointed to decide i
boy s'
'' "ectec
x Regions Equinoxiale
upon the State o"
Antilles. There appea
:, tbe h
, I collected together all 1
imB.g™.- "
, ' ■■ ■ I' O .
"es. There
% Spanish translation <
0 t'ol.heo noire la 14
translation, i
ut there
thed by Dei
iorK,an octavo volume of "
The Island of Cuba, by
lotcs and a preliminary es
ranslator, who has lived a
lubject of
: Do ugh, translated
it from tf ™
1 Jacksoi
i ihe hreac
' ■
a moral II
anil Lite
ida
■
liug, that is now
1826, publicly to complain i
tireseveuth chti,
ich my essa/ jh.IiIujik entleil,
of my work I
i.u-ity, t
'at the words 1 us
is the organizatioi
unequal distinctio
the modera
inly uni
lhat tor
■: be the V.
examined with fr
thirty years ago) whatever eon-
I'human society in the colonics,
of the rights and enjoyments of
angers which the wisdom of legis-
n of freemen can avert, whalevei
traveller who has been an eye-
whos duty
subject of slavery is less inl
that of the slave rilat.es. on the
south of the ciiuator.
leaily ail
prelum el opium
I am for the m(
li ii::.'" i! I I. 'I I
is: but. I tlo 111
utll Ihe last yet
NATURE AND POWER OF THE SLAVE
the fall vigor of his
da "
iUthor requested us to
the inhabit;
Meet An
this powerful aud eloquent addre
' " journals, its author req-
by no means did justic
.1 powers,
itown of
ippeared in the
iao ami Lo in!V r, front his card, thai, it was lei
able to lac sins of the Slave 1'ower anil its la
Washington than would appear from the rep
lhat. when the promised report, iu full, ol" J\
address should appear, the Po.-t would dcrivt
fort IVuia anything il iniglit. liml therein. V
,,::abV,l,byli:e favour of its author, to makesc
from Mr. Quincy's valuable and most impor
bution to our present knowledge, in regard h
uling, the great experience and v
spent, though happily n
age of Mr. Quincy, bringing
e that
a delivery, 1
™n?ofth?Commt
under it. Also, we
ore nn-ul,:,l liml the boy Jioii.
Ui.iifi! hi lit
n tht joilg-
liereil, enlarged and impro'
" The blow on the
The report
IMC- orileivo
his nakedness. He
front of Col. Seed, i
top of a bench, were
ging him. The slave
i his clothing, aud one article al'tet
nay being in favour of banging him. The slave
of a poor slave who was kneeling before thi
Heed upon Ihe b
Outside
luudred Border Ruffians, all eager for blood,
presented iu the Court-House
«■ thrt
tin:
the State of Missouri, on the last Friday of February.
1856.
The whipping commenced. Col. Heed sprang to his
'cot with curiosity; more than a hundred heeds wen
leering in in get a sight of their miserable victim. But
icfore a do/.cn 'ashes htul beeti administered, the -lave li-ll
-, bleeding and writhing in agony. The slave-
to get up. Th«
id declared that
■5 yet to come," and the
truck the harder,
paig
the tt.
of blood and n
tied. Lash upon lash v
ilictul. I
u uiysi II,
3iw of a
Whether the whole of i
istercd, or nhcli.er he gave out !a:iore
plete penalty, I have i;o mean-; of k
know that some of the leading slavehol r.
selves to each other to carry it through, despite the indig-
of slavery, all impart t
Quincy's address has been
ruck a
existed in Congress, for h
school m
standard by which distributive
laveholder's Coi '
nndred dollars i
eudangerir
of llli Mo".
"S
'Insult, bullying and ti
in, of which, at home, they know nothing, and would
villingly meet anywhere; with many of whom, every
id word is an oath ; and who are always ready, with
tol or offer of a duel, to support what they call thei
•hes; now they probably constitute a majority.
nember of Congress from the free States who daw
tort their obloquy; which, if he docs, a duel is thru:
■" ■ if hr-The tenij
if slavery
n the slave States
>.i 1, c
?. Wilson's, and which
:!:/;■'.! chivalry. Although tho
>1 of the ° m
:. :■■:"..'■■:.
ffensive and defensive, the
inuld be cut off from its w
. would fall back npon its re
arve, or whether it would n
mtion to move southward
plied, "i'licu it would be new
■ " ■ .,■: ..:■.: ■■:■:."
thieciii.i, to t.-ireat Britain:
idepemience under the milit,
I, C|i III
,t the ci
»gth t
t ci.;:.
Fifty years ago, there were two classes of slaveholc
Congress; the one, generous in spirit, polished
mers, true to the principles of liberty and the Con
on, uniting heart and hand with the Kepresentati
from the Free t
shara
iam Pinckney, Her
Nicholas Vamlvke.
Il.ius.-.s.auil a host of other
Stanley,
i Vandyke, Philip i
tulated,i
all .
Patrick Henry, a
1 enkeiietl ihe st.rengin m tm:
ed the necessity of holding
[lorlitmly will he a lib riled in olm-'h.
h'ke Governor Randolph, they t\
pressed by slavery, and treated wi
acker, of Virginia, they thougl
'v:oi'M i
nuvrl II:
. . like
ien in bondage, declar-
this lamentable evil;'
arded themselves' op-
h disdain tbe idea that
mselves;' with Judge
:, as he declared, that
lofti
i, far from threatening t
They f"
a, regarded and spoki
; against their own
jrted every man from the
ace of the insolent cl
saw and lamented the
.olent class with appi
nted the character a '
.lavcholders, who, coi
•ty and the Constitution, car
eof getting office or place,
s-rvicnt to everv noil y( the
o that of his master.
id conduct of the
ing for the principles
' "ongress for the
that end, were
ions of the free States, s
Jnion. These higher spi
rts and language to obtn
their respective districts
letter
iall the South,s
.fiiiilmilly w
ofliee-hutitt
ilc.liil ' liiciiiaomh
a dissolution of the
mail \l-in
of the old planters is
„ -ay: we arc everruit by
, oliiei-lamt.eis ami polilictil blacklegs.7 In a
e dated ' Richmond, ^2d March, IS 14,' after
giving a melancholy description of a visit he had just
!lice of the James and AppoinalniA l.livers,"
\e curse of slavery, howwer, an evil daily
magnifying,
the thei
':■'."'
adds, •
11 ere
inch if
out of Black Fria:
nd they
■a of which they
tys conscious, ana somenmes asnamed.'
reholders have been, for fifty years, a few oi
1, the political masters of these States, "iiainpi
ig-possessed authority, in
■What
t lash, and t
) getthi!
obe c
iveholders' yoke ?' The first step i;
strength, but your folly.
yon sleep ; because ila-y unili
tae; uoli.l in their hiiml- the in
ol yoe perhaps are willing to
leges of old age. When can u
md nothing
highest ;n,e
Let any ma
:-. . :.: '. II.
most solemn of all t:
of Thorn
will find that, when tl
f odious and obnoxio
o do, they
:■■■..■ Stiil, ■
:ir in ilenetalion of the power of slave holders, will Speak
of intimtditt til II1
ptactiir of slaveholders. " Iu thai ilay, men IVont Ihe fru-
Stales, who were optra opponents to the Administration.
often carried pistols in self-defence. Others, urged by
their friends to do it, declined ; being n .
any cireaui-tatices, lo have Ihe life of :l fellow-being oil
their consciences. The only difference betwee
and the past is
the bowie-knife w
by way of terror;
or steep
Slates
1 the power of the Union, they ci
policy. Its proper nam
wisdom,' as Lord Bacon
in the garden of Eden—
they established tbe see
slave country, and thus
atmosphere of slavery, ar
iiillueiices, in the place where Ike counci
are held, ami where the whole public :vul
lo the principles of the free Slates; and v
co,,isioiis, resulting in actions at law ai
... are jn.h;e-:. ;■.:■.us ami exec
location of ilie sent of government has 1
iiiii-t [milut caii-es of that dominion over t
they have acquired.
"Again: by aui,,hig, l.iily
Union, not only without the con
been'the Pandora's box of all ottr evils."'
■■ l.ilucaliil under circumstances which
eof |
a pride ami
king d
dient—when their servility i
• them away with contempt.
i ; : ■ .
lan'ahopeofpolitici
i the slave States.
f slaveholders increased,
■i ol the camp,
li- :■. .:-.'■■ .:■",
the infli
i liberty
filization, trie slaveholder
n of the Union, even ol
•i Compromise question
ItoJohoQuincyAdams,
in then pending in Con-
f the I
that he believed tha
;ress would produce
t should, the South would be, from necessity, compelled
iiu.' Mr. Adams naked Ml that would not be returning
o the Colonial State.' Calhoutis.iid, ' Ves,pretty im.icIi ;
ie forced upon them.' Mr. Adams inquired,
' ' ought, if, by the effect of thi.- alliance,
ural oullet npon the ocea
ks, bound hand and foot,
>y land.' Mr. Calhoun i
, in which tl
iiutiotilhepropor-
election, I
talent,
lossession of this;
ions of power established by Washi
ill force, that barrier against the e*
ailed'theMissouri Compromise'; make Kansas a fi
lore slave States to this Union—duties to be fulfilled
ution of the Union itsi
f this Union is destined to break to pieces, it cannot 1
]c farther extension of slavery—that disgrace of c
heart, Nal
shed
t of libert;
se duties, the" 8]
ington intrusted the pre:
Unborn
the Mlssi:
is of ail 1
; c* la n ng 0
4^'t0^ol,-,n:v-!,ai,itfusly, might b
vithoul u
orsaking those who assert it at the peril of
tl.ioii between l'rt
Federal Admini-lr
and munitions frot
of national territoi
Appeals:
making t
and Kans
, il, ". I:
■■';. ■ . ,■■ ..'■■"
once, and openly and boldly t!
Nebraska, aud the vast regio
insist sufficiently upon the in
ligations, of a disciple of Chris
Ac.cm have not some confc
anity of reSuemei
irlsti.in lie rustic that he ma;
aid T .Mast he neglect the ot
ill who love the Saviour, whether it
business; whether, by so doing, they
1 the excellence of the Gospel, and
lie testimony of a
las laboured, durir
.■utilities of Missot
n Lawrence in Kans
i record no word of re
Compromise, with il
ciple of popular so
Compromise by so
riding the inalienat
jrrcspondance
we do right :
ing the Missouri
loly covenant; overruling the prin-
cignt.y, put as a substitute for the
rights of free settlers iu the Terri-
s of the laud. Ove